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Independent Hip Hop Artists in Hong Kong: Youth Sub-Cultural Resistance and Alternative Modes of Cultural Production Independent Hip Hop Artists in Hong Kong: Youth Sub-cultural Resistance and Alternative Modes of Cultural Production Angel Lin, Associate Professor Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong Email: [email protected] Citation: Lin, A. M. Y. (2007). Independent hip hop artists in Hong Kong: Youth sub-cultural resistance and alternative modes of cultural production. Journal of Communication Arts , 25 (4), 47-62. Abstract In this paper I draw on ethnographic observations, interactions and in-depth interviews with key artists in the independent (indie) hip hop music scenes in Hong Kong to research the biographic stories and independent artistic practices situated in their socioeconomic and youth sub-cultural contexts. Then I analyse these ethnographic findings in relation to Bourdieu’s (1993) theoretical framework of “fields of cultural production” and discuss how these youth sub-cultural energies have found for themselves a niche space within the field of cultural production to resist the relentless capitalist practices of the pop culture/music industry. Introduction My research on the independent hip hop music scene in Hong Kong is carried out by way of biography study of key hip hop artists, specifically, through the case study of a key independent hip hop artist and his associates in Hong Kong. I shall discuss the conditions under which modes of creative cultural production alternative to capitalist modes can be made possible, and how these independent artists tactically find ways to craft out their niche space for survival and for innovative cultural production, sometimes by capitalizing on new media technologies (e.g., the Internet). This is meant to be illustrative of the possible kinds of youth subcultures evolving around Angel Lin 2 indie hip hop music-making and the kinds of conditions under which a niche space can be made possible for these indie artists to engage in non-mainstream, non-capitalist-driven modes of creative cultural production. Case Study: MC Yan and his circle of indie Hip Hop artists in Hong Kong Ma (2002a, 2002b), and his student, Chan (2002) conducted the first serious studies on the local Hong Kong hip hop/rock band, LMF (LazyMuthaFucka) and their youth subcultural practices. Their research provided the methodology and theoretical framework for the pioneering study of alternative music/youth artists in Hong Kong. Four years later, I revisited their research questions and gathered new data from the still-active member, MC Yan, of the disbanded LMF, and seek to write a research sequel to Eric Ma’s pioneering studies. Ma (2002a) presented his research question and his proposed answer to the question as follows: “…why there is a sudden ‘uprising’ of alternative bands in post-1997 Hong Kong? Local bands have a long history of more than a few decades (Chu, 2001). Why is it that their voices have been so distinctive and discernible in the mainstream media since 1998? Critical of mainstream middle-class ideologies, these bands and their music serve as symbolic resources for cultural differentiation and popular resistance among teenagers. They generate strong ‘emotional energies’, which have been mixing with populist anti-government sentiments of the larger society. This socio-emotive web of sub-cultural politics has become a conspicuous display that marks the particular historical juncture of post-1997 Hong Kong. ” Four years after Ma made the above insightful observation, and nine years into the post-1997 era of Hong Kong, the voices and media coverage of these alternative bands, especially LMF, which received the greatest amount of media attention around 1998 to 2000, have already sunk into obsolete archives, which perhaps only youth cultural studies researchers (like me) might revisit. LMF itself was disbanded in 2003 Angel Lin 3 due to lack of commercial sponsorship and entertainment jobs for them. This is not surprising after the media and the cultural industry has finished exploiting their emotional energies and exhausted their newness (i.e., no longer fresh and sensational), and after the massive hype around these alternative and resistant youth voices/band sound has gradually died out. My research questions for what I conceive as a research sequel to Ma’s pioneering studies in the early 2000s are as follows: • Is there any niche space for the surviving members of these circles of alternative artists to carry on with their youth subcultural resistance practice/project as well as their innovative, creative, artistic projects, • And if yes, what are the conditions under which such a niche space can be made possible and what are the conditions necessary for sustaining this niche space for this practice/project? I draw on the ethnographic methodology, mainly by conducting both formal and informal, in-depth, life-history, and other topic-focused interviews, as well as on-line chats. I conducted face-to-face home visits, MSN chats, and telephone interviews and discussion with the key surviving indie hip hop artist, MC Yan. I also participated in some of their gatherings at MC Yan’s home studio, and attended in the first protest music concert-cum-League of Socialist Democrats Inauguration Meeting on 1 October 2006, in which MC Yan played a key role in lining up former protest music artists for performing in the public political meeting in Hong Kong. I also analysed the song lyrics of MC Yan’s and his apprentice, Chef’s (see my earlier paper, Lin, forthcoming), and visited MC Yan’s website and web-forum, and observed the forum members’ postings and exchanges (http://www.chinamantaggin.com ). Emotional Energies and Marginalized Youths Ma (2002a) delineated the concept of emotional energies of underground bands and Angel Lin 4 LMF at length: “Adapting Collins’ (1990) sociology of emotions, these bands can be seen as active producers of what he calls ‘emotional energies’. They discursively mobilize oppressive energies of social stigmas thrown upon them, turn them around and use these stigmas as their own identity resources for drawing boundaries of inclusion and exclusion. These free flowing emotional energies are charged and re-charged in concerts, stored in CDs, pregnant with self-produced signs and saturated in their own private underground spaces. Life history interviews of band members indicate that most of them were ‘failures’ by elitist standards. They dropped out from school, some had serious problems with their parents, and others had taken up freelance jobs in CD shops, construction sites and delivery companies. Of course there are a few who obtained university degrees, but as a whole, many of them can hardly be considered academic achievers. They do not integrate well into the mainstream. Durkheim asked a fundamental question of sociology: what holds society together? His answer is the mechanisms that produce moral solidarity. Collins (1990) suggests that these mechanisms do so by producing emotions. Yet emotions work both ways. My informants are stigmatized by the general public, but at the same time they exclude themselves from an imagined mainstream society by self-stigmatization. Antagonisms generate negative emotions, which build up barriers between these bands and the society at large. Yet these negative emotional energies are used positively to mobilize in-group solidarity… I try to use the case of alternative bands to explore the emotionality of sub-cultural formation. With emotional energy, I refer to routine as well as dramatic emotions generated, maintained, dissipated and re-charged in interactive rituals within and between communities. It is somewhat similar to the psychological concept of drive. However, emotional energy is more than personal and biographical; it is collective, bodily, interactive, and thus social and structural.” (Ma, 2000a, p. 190) The emotional energies of MC Yan and his associates are frequently witnessed both in the way they talk, for instance, in interviews with the researcher (e.g., in a loud, angry voice, especially when talking about mainstream music industry and institutions), and in their artistic works and music. One frequent term used by MC Yan is “the System”, and he clearly classified himself as working, living, struggling, and fighting outside of “the System”. By “the System” he meant the mainstream, Angel Lin 5 capitalist society and institutions both in Hong Kong and in the world; e.g., the government and the ruling elite of the society, including the middle classes with high-paid jobs and well-recognized social status. He sees himself as a public intellectual and his work as part of the leftist, anti-capitalist, pro-democracy, pro-working-class, and pro-Muslim projects all over the world. He aligned himself with the anti-U.S.-hegemony Muslim youth groups in the Middle East and maintained some relationship with them. This, however, does not mean that MC Yan and his associates are anti-government, but suggests that their emotional energies have partly arisen from being positioned (both by mainstream others and by themselves) as outside of the “System” (i.e., as non-academic achievers, by choice or by circumstances, and thus also as non-beneficiaries of the mainstream, capitalist institutions). As Ma noted (2000a), they turn the tables by using these emotional energies arising from society’s marginalization to draw boundaries of inclusion and exclusion (e.g., establishing “we” and “they” categories) and build their own in-group solidarity (e.g., in their words, “We, the utopians…”, “They, the people with high-pay jobs… they, the music business people”). The complex balancing art of resistance through collusion and compartmentalization How do these alternative subcultural youth groups survive in Hong Kong, or in any society? When confronted with “the means of living” question from the researcher, MC Yan was very upfront about their marginal, alternative status, as well as their strategies of survival by both resisting and colluding with (or in his words “exploiting”) the System.
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